It is widespread (38% of cafes in the last 90 days), but searches in Canberra are down 24% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025).
At least 17.5% of the cafes we see well had it in the last 90 days but searches are falling or well below their 12-month high, or fewer of the same cafes have it than in the 90 days before (from at least 10) while searches hold.
The stages run Emerging, Rising, Peaking, Mainstream, Fading. A trend can skip a stage or move back.
Finely ground Japanese green tea whisked with water and usually poured over milk, hot or iced: grassy, a little bitter and bright green.
Drawn as an iced matcha latte, the drink Canberra cafes most often put it in.
91 Canberra cafes: 76 on their menus, 15 from posts.
Showing 10 of 91 cafes, cheapest first
Canberra cafes with Matcha on their menus or in their posts.
Each bar is the Canberra cafes whose menu lists matcha in that flavour. Under each flavour is the menu line most of those cafes use.
A chain counts as one cafe however many shops it has.
It's peaking: popular, but maybe past its high.
Canberra's figures come from Google reviews and cafe menus (223 Canberra cafes with a review or menu in the last 90 days). We don't read Canberra cafes' posts yet, so this is a small sample and a drink shows up here later than it would in posts.
Canberra searches a month
Searches up by half on Dec 2024.
1,890 searches, the busiest month.
Tap a number for what changed then.
Share of each city's own cafes with it, last 90 days.
Cafe menus listing it now, Canberra.
76 cafe menus
We started reading cafe menus in late 2026. Cafes adding and dropping it each month show here once the first whole month of menu reads is in.
Searches in Oct 2026, circles sized to match.
43suburbs with cafes that have it
By Nov 2026 (so far)
Each bar is the Canberra cafes with a customer review of it that month; Nov 2026 is not over yet, so its bar is so far.
12 suburbs are known only from a menu, which we can't date, so they count in the last month.
Matcha is on 76 Canberra cafe menus and has been seen at cafes in 43 Canberra suburbs.
Finely ground Japanese green tea whisked with water and usually poured over milk, hot or iced: grassy, a little bitter and bright green. In all our data to 15 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 151 Canberra cafes across 43 suburbs, in Google reviews and menus. The 91 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.
It is on 76 Canberra cafe menus right now, including FARRER CAFE & TAKEAWAY in Farrer, Gus' Place in Canberra, Bittersweet in Kingston and Bookplate in Parkes. 15 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their current menu. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.
The average is $7.64, from 66 Canberra cafe menus as of 15 Nov 2026. Most charge between $5.50 and $10.25; the lowest we have seen is $5 and the highest $14.50.
It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 44% against Canberra's 38%, over the last 90 days.
It is popular, but may be past its high. The Froth rates matcha as Peaking as of 15 Nov 2026: it is widespread (38% of cafes in the last 90 days), but searches in Canberra are down 24% (Aug to Oct 2026 against Aug to Oct 2025). In the 90 days to 15 Nov 2026, 38% of the Canberra cafes we see well (a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 361 cafes we have followed through both periods, 19 of the same cafes had it, against 20 in the 90 days before (down 5%). Canberra searches for it were down 24% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.
There were 1,010 searches for matcha in Canberra in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 530 searches (Dec 2024) to 1,890 (Jan 2026). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Canberra.
The earliest Canberra customer review about matcha that The Froth has is from 1 Feb 2024. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.
A typical iced matcha latte, drawn from Canberra cafes' menus and reviews, is built from the top down with whisked matcha (2 to 4 g of matcha whisked with 60 ml of warm water, poured on last), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold milk (about 200 ml, often oat, lightly sweetened). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.
A cafe counts for matcha from the first Google review we found that mentions it, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with new reviews or menus (15 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Canberra with all of a trend's names added up. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.